PROMPTING

Picnic Planner - Basic Prompting

You need to plan a picnic for friends but want AI to help with details. Your prompt needs to provide enough context for useful suggestions.

What You'll Build:

• • Clarity & Specificity
• • Completeness

Why Your Company's AI Tools Keep Failing (No Coding)

Your company bought 3 AI-powered tools this year: An AI writing assistant ($30/user/month), an AI meeting summarizer ($20/user/month), and an AI email drafter ($25/user/month). Total cost: $15K/month for 200 employees. But everyone's complaining: 'The AI cuts off mid-sentence,' 'It forgets what I told it 5 minutes ago,' 'It keeps giving me generic garbage.' Your manager asks you to figure out WHY these tools aren't working and document workarounds for the team.

What You'll Build:

• • Tokens & Context Windows
• • Model Types & Selection

Explain Like I'm 10 - Simplification

You need AI to explain a complex concept in simple terms. Your prompt must specify the target audience and complexity level.

What You'll Build:

• • Audience Specification
• • Simplification Technique

Model Selection Strategy - Right Tool for the Right Job (No Coding)

Your company has ChatGPT Plus ($20/month), Claude Pro ($20/month), and a free tier of another AI tool. You're recruiting for 5 roles and need to: (1) Analyze 50-page benefits document to answer candidate questions, (2) Draft creative job descriptions that stand out, (3) Synthesize research on competitor compensation, (4) Generate outreach emails to passive candidates, (5) Create interview question sets. Your manager says: 'Stop using the same tool for everything. Different AI models are good at different things. Figure out which tool for which task, and teach the team.'

What You'll Build:

• • GPT-4 (ChatGPT Plus)
• • Claude (Anthropic)

Catching AI Hallucinations - Why AI Lies Confidently (No Coding)

You used AI to research FMLA policy details for an employee question. You confidently emailed HR with the answer. HR replied: 'This is completely wrong. Where did you get this?' You check the AI chat - it cited a law that doesn't exist and a court case that never happened. Your manager calls you in: 'AI tools hallucinate - they make up facts that sound real. Before you use AI for anything important, you need to learn how to catch hallucinations and verify outputs. Research this, create a verification framework, and teach the team.' Your credibility is on the line.

What You'll Build:

• • What is AI Hallucination?
• • Common Hallucination Patterns

Prompt Chain Challenge - Sequential Thinking

You have a complex task that needs to be broken down into sequential steps for better AI responses.

What You'll Build:

• • Logical Decomposition
• • Progressive Refinement

Meeting Minute Maker - Structured Output

You have messy meeting notes that need to be transformed into clear, structured meeting minutes.

What You'll Build:

• • Precision & Control
• • Format Targeting

Recruiting Workflow Automation - Sourcing to Offer (No Coding)

You're recruiting for: (1) Senior Software Engineer, (2) Product Marketing Manager, (3) Customer Success Lead. Each role needs: job description, sourcing strategy, outreach emails (20+ candidates), phone screen questions, interview guides, and offer letter templates. Doing this manually takes 15+ hours per role. Your manager says: 'You have access to AI tools. Build a repeatable workflow that cuts this to 5 hours per role. Create prompt templates the whole recruiting team can use. Document what works, what doesn't, and train 3 junior recruiters next month.' You need to prove AI can scale recruiting without sacrificing quality.

What You'll Build:

• • Multi-Turn Prompting Mastery
• • Template Creation & Scalability

Instruction Conductor - Multi-format Output

You need the same information presented in multiple formats for different audiences.

What You'll Build:

• • Multi-part Structure
• • Format Differentiation

Meeting Automation - Prep, Notes, Follow-up (No Coding)

Your executive has 25 meetings this week: 1-on-1s, team syncs, board prep, vendor calls, investor updates. Each needs: agenda prep, real-time notes, summary email, action items tracked. Manually, this is 20+ hours/week. Your exec says: 'I know you're using AI for some of this. Systematize it. Build a repeatable process for all meeting types. I want: (1) Pre-meeting brief before every call, (2) Notes captured during, (3) Summary + action items within 1 hour after. Make it consistent across all meeting types.' You have budget for AI tools. Prove AI can handle executive-level meeting support.

What You'll Build:

• • 1-on-1 (Manager + Direct Report)
• • Vendor/Partner Call

AI Output Quality Control - From 80% to 100% (No Coding)

You've been using AI to draft communications. It's fast (30 min → 5 min for first draft). But your manager flagged 3 recent outputs: (1) Press release had wrong product launch date, (2) CEO memo had tone that was too casual for board audience, (3) Internal policy email was clear but lacked company voice. Manager says: 'AI gets you to 80% fast. But sending 80% to execs/press/board is career-limiting. You need a quality control system. Build a checklist for editing AI output from 80% to 100%. Teach the team what good looks like. Document the patterns of AI mistakes so we catch them before they embarrass us.'

What You'll Build:

• • Accuracy Check
• • Tone Calibration

Roleplay Templates - Professional Personas

You need AI to respond from a specific professional perspective with appropriate tone and expertise.

What You'll Build:

• • Role Assignment
• • Tone & Audience

Multi-Step Research Workflow Design - Complex Projects (No Coding)

Your VP asks you to lead competitive intelligence project: 'Research top 5 competitors - their pricing, product features, customer segments, go-to-market strategy, and recent funding. Synthesize into strategic brief with recommendations. I need this in 2 weeks for board presentation.' This would normally take 40+ hours of research + synthesis. Your colleague who does this role says: 'I use AI but it's still taking me 30 hours because I don't have a system. Can you build a repeatable workflow? Document the process so our team can do these faster. We get requests like this monthly.'

What You'll Build:

• • Multi-Step Workflow Design
• • Template & Framework Creation

Root Cause Resolver - Deep Analysis

You need to uncover root causes of problems, not just surface symptoms. AI should help you dig deeper.

What You'll Build:

• • Depth of Reasoning
• • Logical Decomposition

Context Splitter - Order Experimentation

You need to understand how instruction placement affects AI attention and output quality.

What You'll Build:

• • Experimental Design
• • Iteration & Refinement

Building Team Prompt Library - Knowledge Sharing (No Coding)

Your manager notices: 'Everyone keeps asking you how to get AI to do X. You're spending 5+ hours/week helping teammates with prompts. This doesn't scale - you're becoming a bottleneck.' She continues: 'Build a prompt library for the team. Document your top 20 prompts that people keep asking about. Make them easy to customize. Train the team to use them. I want you to spend less time answering one-off questions and more time on strategic work.' Challenge: Your team has varying AI skill levels (some never used ChatGPT, some use it daily). Library must work for everyone.

What You'll Build:

• • Monthly Review:
• • New Prompt Requests:

Complex Problem-Solving with AI - Break Down Big Challenges (No Coding)

Your CEO drops a bomb in all-hands: 'We're exploring merger with CompetitorX (200 employees, overlapping product). I need analysis of risks, opportunities, integration plan, and recommendation by Friday. This could be $50M deal or total disaster.' You have 3 days. Normal consulting firm charges $200K for merger analysis. Your team: You + 2 analysts. This is career-defining project. You need AI to help structure thinking, but final recommendations must be YOUR strategic judgment.

What You'll Build:

• • Cultural Risk:
• • Technical Risk:

Scenario Builder - Complex Situations

You need AI to help navigate complex business scenarios with multiple dimensions and stakeholders.

What You'll Build:

• • Scenario Complexity
• • Logical Decomposition

Creating Quality Standards & Evaluation Rubrics (No Coding)

Your VP of Operations: 'We've grown from 20 to 100 people in 18 months. Quality is all over the place. Customer support responses range from amazing to terrible. Sales proposals are inconsistent. Marketing content has no standard. I need you to build quality rubrics for our top 10 work outputs. Create evaluation criteria anyone can use. Train managers to give consistent feedback. This becomes our quality standard across the company.' You have 3 weeks. This defines how we hire, train, promote, and evaluate work quality for next 5 years.

What You'll Build:

• • Problem Resolution
• • Clarity

Rubric Builder - Quality Frameworks

You need to create systematic evaluation criteria for prompt quality to train others.

What You'll Build:

• • Framework Design
• • Measurability

Teaching AI Adoption to Teams - Training & Change Management (No Coding)

Your CEO announces at all-hands: 'We're investing $200K in AI tools this year - ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude for Teams, Perplexity. Every employee gets access. [Your Name] is leading AI adoption. I want 80% of company using AI productively within 90 days.' You look around: 200 employees, varying tech skills (sales, support, finance, eng, HR). Some have never used ChatGPT. Some use it daily. Some are skeptical ('AI will replace us'). You have 90 days to train everyone, drive adoption, measure ROI, and prove this $200K investment was worth it.

What You'll Build:

• • Training Program Design
• • Change Management Strategy

Team Training Script - Knowledge Transfer

You need to create a comprehensive training module to upskill your team on prompt engineering.

What You'll Build:

• • Audience Customization
• • Mentorship & Feedback

Business Idea Incubator - Startup Ideation

You need AI to help develop and validate a startup idea through structured exploration.

What You'll Build:

• • Innovation Application
• • Systemic Thinking

Strategic Planning with AI - Vision to Execution (No Coding)

Board meeting in 6 weeks. CEO tasks you: 'We need 3-year strategic plan. Market's changing fast - AI, economic uncertainty, new competitors. I need: (1) Market analysis, (2) Strategic options (build/buy/partner), (3) Recommended strategy with financials, (4) Execution roadmap. Board will grill us on this. Make it bulletproof.' Normally you'd hire McKinsey for $500K. You have: internal team (you + 2 analysts), budget for data/tools, and AI. This strategic plan defines company direction for next 3 years. Get it wrong = company fails. Get it right = $100M+ outcome.

What You'll Build:

• • Market Size & Growth:
• • Competitive Landscape: